An indie album from Florida. Stork, "Little Kingdoms" http://storktheband.com/?page_id=9 I worked with them on a song or two, and will start up again this next year as the drummer and Audio Engineer. The album doesn't sound really professional, but if you knew the equipment we were working...

Bright Eyes, indie rock band. I fell in love with Conor's voice and the emotions that I can fell in ever song. The lyrics are breathtaking, and will make sense after the third listening of the song :) My favourite song-a perfect sonnet. Can i second this? One of my favourite bands, although I've go...

Overall, it seems that you all agree with his general ideas, but don't like how extreme he is about them. [...]or in embedded systems, or in a situation where you have discovered a performance bottleneck, his approach makes sense. This is where a good chunk of his coding experience comes from, so hi...

I think after the instructor's suggestion to avoid malloc that it's time to find a new instructor. It's like learning from a carpenter who tells you never to use a screwdriver. "I've built plenty of houses with just a hammer, that's all you should need." Memory allocation is a very import...

Well, I wrote up the code and sent it off to my mentor. He says that although it works, and that malloc is an OK way to do it, it's not a great way to do it. He goes on to say: ---- There are better ways. I can't ever recall in my 40+ years of programming ever using malloc a single time. IMHO it is ...

What are you trying to accomplish by avoiding malloc? It's not that I am trying to avoid malloc, I just want to know if there are other, or even better, ways to do it. My point here (and in all of the coding threads I have been or will be a part of) isn't to "make it work" but to understa...

Alright guys, round two! First, thanks again for all the help on the int to ASCII problem. I'm now having an issue returning a string (that string actually) from a function. I know it can be done with malloc, but something tells me there is a better, or more direct, way. If there really isn't anothe...

Heck, an Allen and Heath GS-R24 + the monitors for a 5.1 surround system would already put me back around 10k, without any room treatment. And I'm not sure I'd have a good place to fit it. It'd be nice, though! Say, does any one have $ 5 0,000 that they want to give to me with the "you have to...

This guy has been coding forever, If he's been programming forever, he may have learned C before the days of optimizing compilers. If you're using a compiler from the late 70s/early 80s, there's a decent chance that i++ is faster than i+=1. If your compiler was written in the mid-80s or later, it's...

After reading all of that (a few times :D ) and playing around on my own some more, I have a much better understanding of pointers. Thanks. You have also changed my mind as far as pre/post increment. I must have misconstrued his reasons for having me do that. This guy has been coding forever, he's e...

Personally, I would build a listening room designed for one or two people. Amazingly flat response, and a close to perfect environment. I wouldn't go to the crazy audiophile levels with the actual system, that can always be upgraded. It's kinda hard to say what "perfect" is for recreation...

What exactly is happening here in this line relative to pointer land? : char s[11], *p = s + 10; I'm sure this could be split up into two lines: char s[11]; char *p = s + 10; Correct. I admit that this kind of initialization can be slightly confusing, but it's so common that it's a good idea to get...

Thank you so much, that clears up a lot of my problems about pointers. My one remaining is the distinction between p, *p and s[] and how they fit together From what I understand: p is an int representing the char array starting location in memory through to the end of the array *p is an int that pas...

That code makes a lot of sense, we are doing the same math, just writing it to memory in the reverse order. My only question is why the printf statement needs to be "++p" and not just p. That question stems from my limited knowledge of pointers. I have read a few articles on pointers and n...

I also want to avoid lame answers - no paying off your debt, giving it to charity, or lending out to someone. Investments are acceptable, but borderline. Well, fine then, if I actually have to spend it. I'd finally buy the Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Set and build some proper bookshelv...

Ptolom wrote:I have a new website at http://www.hexifact.co.uk. It consists entirely of blog at the moment but I'm working on things. It's going to cover all my hardware hacking and programming projects, as well as some tutorials.

I really don't know where else to put this, I find it way too awesome. I used to watch the Simpsons a lot, but I hadn't in a while. I caught this yesterday, and it's honestly the funniest thing I have herd on the Simpsons. *Marge is pouring packets of ketchup into a ketchup bottle.* Marge: "Hon...

Thank you guys for all of your help so far! Learning to code has been a really low duty-cycle task for me, but I had some time this week and worked through my problems. Here is my revised code that now works: int main(void) { unsigned int input =0xFFFFFFFF; // used for testing inputs int lastDigit =...

Psh, the one time I had a large amount of coins, I didn't go to one of these machines because of the fee. I took the time to roll them, and then my terrible bank ended up charging a freaking fee anyway.

I'm glad to see the topic of this thread has been razors recently. I was just wandering around the Penny Arcade thread about the same thing. To people who've used two of the following set, what are your notes/what works best for you? The set being (disposable, safety, straight)? I've been using dis...

Hit a little too close to home. Mr. Munroe needs to, as they say, "Get out of my head". i second that... one of my rare "randall get of out my head" moment that prompted me to post... this is so bitterly funny for me. describes the dynamic between my ex and i to a tee. [i was a ...

int foo = 0x32; printf("%c",foo); prints a "2" Do you know why it prints 2? And what printf("%c", 0x31) would do -- without trying it? (Once you try it, of course it is easy to know what it would do!) How about printf("%c", 0x41)? (I'm actually looking for a ...

I was once conducted by a man who had synesthesia to an huge level, he said he can see the colors as the notes are played. Because of this, his pitch is almost perfect. He could point out a sharp or flat note that one person was playing in a section of almost 15. He described chords in colors, it wa...

I think I am getting held up on the easy part of this problem. My problem, as I'm seeing, is not the code before the printf, but the use of printf. I can get each digit down to it's ASCI equivalent binary/hex, but I don't know how to use printf to let it know to treat it as asci. Any help would be g...

sprintf should be enough to get you started. I'm pretty sure he's supposed to be a little more bare-metal than that. Basic (if not even bitwise) operations. Yeah, you are right, that would be cheating. He told me today that I shouldn't even need to use casting. Am I on the right track going to deci...

I was in a heavily wooded forest somewhere, it was warm and cold all at the same time. There was an almost blinding light and a music started up, it sounded like dishwalla style, but without words. I was suddenly next to a girl that I know, she put her arm around me, and we started walking. After a ...